Ballybroughan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfintinan, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile Uí Bhruacháin
- Area
- 47.5 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 3,054 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybroughan, from 93 m² to 61,582 m² (6.16 ha, 15.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballybroughan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Sept 2025Conditional
of a rear roof dormer box window and retention permission of 2 No. box windows clad in standing seam instead of red cedar
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25305
31 Aug 2024Conditional
of existing attic development not approved under planning reference number 07/3011 and planning PERMISSION is sought to carry out modifications to include dormer windows to the front and side and replace existing ground floor windows
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460417
16 May 2024Conditional
to extend existing private dwelling house at first floor level over attached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460212
9 Jun 2023Conditional
for development which will consist of: construction of dwelling house and effluent treatment system with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360199
24 Oct 2022Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22962
12 Feb 2021Conditional
for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house to comprise of Livingroom and walk-in-wardrobe and en-Suite off of existing bedroom with balcony overhead including ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21108
18 Mar 2020Refused
to construct an entrance, dwelling house, detached garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20195
3 Sept 2019N/a
for a dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and site related works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 19692
5 Apr 2019N/a
for the construction of dwelling house, proprietary treatment plant and percolation area including ancillary site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 19259
11 Jul 2017Conditional
to erect a glasshouse
Permission · Clare County Council, 17536
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybroughan.
Recorded monuments
- CL052-061 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL052-061001 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybroughan.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_842 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballybroughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybroughan · Baile Uí Bhruacháin
- Area
- 474,939 m² (47.49 ha, 117.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfintinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Mountievers, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountievers electoral division: 1,410 people in 471 households; 85% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanalaght, Carrowmore, Gallowshill, Gortnanool, Heathmount, Island, Knockroe
- Placenames
- Ballybroughan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.